Ranulph is spot on there Disc utility will do it all. If I was to start with a nice clean drive i would also use disk utility to make 2 partitions one large and a small one which would be bootable and install a system on it. As well as being able to boot from this in an emergency, it will allow you to carry out better maintenance on the internal main system. This assumes that the drive is bootable which almost all are these days, Disk utility will tell you.
Clive (newbe) On 2 Jul 2010, at 18:36, Ranulph Glanville wrote: > I've reformatted many "pc" discs. What you wil lose is any special software > that does clever things with your pc. Since you have a mac, it makes no > difference. > > Don't forget to have journalling turned on, and to format for mac OS X. If > you have any OS pre-X you amy want to use the option so the disc is readable > by earlier OS's. > > You can do all this using disc utility in your utilities folder. > > But maybe you should wait for a real computer guru to answer: over to you, > truly knowledgeable people! > > Ranulph > > > > > > On 2 Jul 2010, at 12:39, Richard Coker wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've just bought a Seagate Expansion 1TB hard drive from Argos which I now >> discover is clearly marked as being set up for use with a PC. >> >> Googling has brought to light guidance on how to reformat such a drive but >> has also raised fears of possible problems. >> >> I'm looking for some reassurance that reformatting this thing will be >> successful and I won't have to go back to Argos and agrue the toss about a >> refund. >> >> Many thanks, >> Richard >> (Borderline computer idiot) >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. Macfixer [email protected] 07812 990026 01273 592472 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
